IN HIS 1939 WORK ENTITLED "THE ORGANISM, " Kurt Goldstein proposed a unified theory for understanding human development which was viewed as being radically innovative and provocative for its time. Goldstein's concepts were grounded in his "holistic viewpoint, " which integrated aspects of human functioning and posited that the human organism functioned as a whole. This holistic approach offered a neuroscientific perspective not previously articulated by Gestalt investigators of human behavior: for Goldstein, the mental and physical processes were inextricably intertwined and human behavior was best understood not by segmenting